SFDC OAuth Tool

SFDC OAuth Tool

Posted by: Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services

SFDC OAuth Tool is a standalone tool which helps in generating access tokens for SFDC OAuth login mode.

Overview

Effective in release Spring 2017, Salesforce Connector provides two modes of Salesforce login. When you create a Salesforce connection, you can either select Standard or OAuth type. The Standard connection accepts username and password. The OAuth connection accepts the service endpoint URL and OAuth access token.

Informatica Cloud OAuth Utility:

Informatica Cloud OAuth utility is a standalone tool that you can use to generate access tokens for Salesforce OAuth connection. Perform the following steps to generate access token: 

  • Contact Informatica Global Customer Support to obtain the OAuth utility package, oauth-tool.zip.
  • Extract oauth-tool.zip.
  • Navigate to oauth-tool\tomcat\conf.
  • Open the server.xml file to update the mystore.jks file path.
  • Update the mystore.jks file path to the one on your system where you unzipped the oauth-tool.zip file.
  • Navigate to oauth-tool\tomcat\bin.
  • Double-click catalina.bat to run the batch file or same could be run thru command with Catalina.bat start.
  • Open the browser window and paste the following URL in the address bar:
    For production instance:  http://localhost:8090/salesforce/initiateoauth
    For sandbox instance: http://localhost:8090/salesforce/test/initiateoauth
  • The Salesforce Log In page appears.
  • Log in to Salesforce using your credentials. You can view the OAuth access token generated with the other details, such as signature and instance URL. For example:
  • {"access_token":"00Di0000000eDzY!AQQAQDsfpPY78S7GQ1btSmy6vWv3Losf1oUfSI24URVoXbG_Bllsk4ybtF2xyX5H29rrc8pCpC1kANpZq6b0PI_m.Ldy0q7T","signature":"uThh23rE58+p8Glae3gZ0u0XZR0QSCrOumppvld6V1k=","scope":"api","instance_url":"https://na15.salesforce.com","id":"https://login.salesforce.com/id/00Di0000000eDzYEAU/005i0000001GWBKAA4","token_type":"Bearer","issued_at":"1444727905179"} Access token - 00Di0000000eDzY!AQQAQDsfpPY78S7GQ1btSmy6vWv3Losf1oUfSI24URVoXbG_Bllsk4ybtF2xyX5H29rrc8pCpC1kANpZq6b0PI_m.Ldy0q7T  

Features

  • Token generation for both Sandbox and Production environment.

Support

You can contact a Global Support Center by telephone or through Online Support on Informatica Network.
To find your local Informatica Global Customer Support telephone number, visit the Informatica website at the following link.
If you are an Informatica Network member, you can use Online Support at http://network.informatica.com

support@informatica.com 
Phone No: Tollfree - 1-877-463-2435 

Specifications:

  • Informatica Cloud

Informatica Global Customer Support (GCS)  does not require Informatica to receive Customer Data.  “Customer” means the entity receiving Support Services. In the event Customer Data or Customer confidential information as described in the applicable agreement is mistakenly sent, shared, or uploaded to GCS, Customer must notify Informatica promptly to ensure deletion from GCS systems.  See the “Data Confidentiality” section of the Support Guide for more details.